Fans of vintage American culture can find delightful glimpses into the past via thousands of soft drink artifacts: vintage signs, print ads, beautiful old bottles, soda-fountain drinking glasses and more. But larger monuments to that history endure, hidden in plain sight in large cities and smaller burgs.
These structures may have once belonged to the local bottling plant or had some other Coca-Cola-related history, but today they live on as condominium buildings or office complexes. Some have even made it on the list of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), a designation that encourages preservation of historic properties. But locals tend to refer to the buildings simply as “the Coca-Cola Building.” It’s a reference to what the building used to be — what it represented to the community. It also speaks to the building’s place in the evolution of America’s architecture.
Granted, some of these structures don’t look like much. Sometimes old bottling plants look like, well, old bottling plants. But other times the draw is in the architectural details. “I think most people are always happy to see a previously vacant building brought back to its former glory and put into active use again. Read more.
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